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Deer Control: Getting To The Hart Of The Matter

By Kitty Merrill

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Bill Crain, president of the East Hampton Group for Wildlife, began his annual hunger strike to protest deer hunting on Sunday at the start of the season. For the fifth straight year, Crain, his wife Ellen, and other supporters held a three-day hunger strike, which includes a demonstration in front of East Hampton Town Hall.

How’d they do it? Last month during a hearing on East Hampton Town’s proposed deer management plan, part time resident Christine Ganitsch described a successful program implemented by a New Jersey community.

This week, The Independent offers a look at the Bernards Township plan and results garnered from a program that began with the convening of a deer task force in 1999.

A formal deer management program began in the township, a 24.5 square mile municipality located in central New Jersey, in 2001, according to officials’ 2011 report to the Centers for

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“We had an epidemic of deerrelated collisions. You were afraid to drive at night,” Committeeman John Carpenter, liaison to the Bernards Township Deer Task Force, recalled.

After two years of community dialog, the township committee (a body comparable to East Hampton’s town board) decided to initiate a formal deer management program.

A culling program was authorized for the 2001-2002 hunting season.

With many other New Jersey municipalities reporting deer problems similar to Bernards,’ state lawmakers enacted legislation permitting “more intense activity than regular sport hunting,” according to the report. Once a municipality adopted a formal plan, and it received approval from the New Jersey Division of Fish & Wildlife, increased hunting on public property was allowed. In Bernards the submission of a plan led to an extension of the hunting season from mid February through the end of March.

The first year of the program, the township hired professional hunters who used shotguns.

“Their results were limited, but expensive, and we never used them again,” the report states. A private organization of volunteer archery hunters had more success and has been part of the program for 10 years. A second group of volunteers came on board in 2003. They use archery equipment, shotguns and muzzleloaders.

Described in the report as “proficient and committed hunters,” they are qualified every two years with tests administered by local police. Over the decade, there were no reported incidents of injury to members of the public or their pets.

Working from tree stands, hunters target deer at bait sites. “ We h a v e h i g h l y e x p e r t hunters,” Carpenter said. Culling is implemented “in an unobtrusive and sensitive way. We do it respectfully.”

Although Bernards commissioned six aerial surveys to determine the deer population, only two were considered reliable, the report notes. They were conducted at night Continued on Page 25.

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1. I resolve to go on the Chris Christie Diet. I will eat more fat and consume more delicious empty calories. I also plan to devour more sugar and rid my diet of fresh fruits and vegetables, whose tastes are greatly overrated.

2. I resolve to pour salt on everything until my blood pressure pops out of the top of my cute bald head. I will salt capers, anchovies and even Campbell’s Soup, which is 95 percent salt and 5 percent water.

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7. I resolve not to laugh, chuckle, giggle, snigger, titter, snort or make funny faces when I ask my gay friends who voted for Obama how they like his appointment of antigay Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. In 1998, Hagel made an antigay comment about ambassadorial nominee Jim Hormel, opposing him as “openly aggressively gay.” I’m surprised Barney Frank didn’t throw a hissy fit at the time.

8. I resolve to start wearing a nice comfy full-length fur coat and I’m going to carry around a bucket of pig’s blood to throw on the cloth coat of any anti-fur activist who comes within 10 feet of me.

9. I resolve not to let the New York Giants break my heart again in 2013. They are cursed as long as they keep employing Perry (“Prevent Defense”) Fewell, the single worst defensive coach in football history.

Fewell keeps his job thanks to the old, feeble head coach Tom Coughlin, who jumps around after every bad play like he’s just been goosed by the unseen hand of God. The Giants could have been a great team in 2012 if they had allowed rookie David Wilson to play instead of sitting him on the bench and pushing brave Ahmad Bradshaw to attempt to run the ball on the two stumps he calls his feet.

10. I resolve to tell that fat, phony Al Gore how happy I am that he sold his flop liberal cable network to Al Jazeera, an Arab network that gives a platform to creeps like Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim cleric who appears on air to castigate Jews and America and praises suicide bombings. This deal with the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa, gives Fat Al a $70 million profit. It’s Arab fossil fuel money and “Don’t do as I do, do as I say” Al closed the sale before the end of the year to save 8.8 percent in additional Obama capital gains taxes.

Why am I so happy? Anytime I can start the year and see clear proof of what hypocrites liberals are when they smell money they can put in their own pocket and avoid paying their “Fair Share” of a tax they want everyone else to pay, I’m a happy man.

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Finally, Dredge Arrives in Accabonac

By Kitty Merrill

“I was there when they turned it on for the first time, it was very exciting,” East Hampton Town Trustee Clerk Diane McNally said Monday. She and Legislator Jay Schneiderman welcomed a longawaited dredge to Accabonac Harbor last Friday afternoon. Officials have been waiting for the project, “years and years and years, it seems,” McNally said.

The private contractor Gibson & Cushman is undertaking the work, which will target an area from Gardiner’s Bay to the channel between Louse Point and Gerard Point, all the way to the town launching ramp. The project includes beach renourishment, with sand used to rebuild Louse Point Beach, which took a beating during Hurricane Sandy.

McNally said Accabonac had become so filled in, there were baymen who could only get out at high tide. Additionally because flushing action was impaired, Accabonac was the last harbor opened to shellfishing after Hurricane Sandy.

The harbor had been dredged only once since the 1990s, McNally reported, but it’s the third local harbor dredged this year.

Schneiderman, who is chair of the county legislature’s Public Works Committee fought hard to include Accabonac in the county’s dredging schedule this year, according to a release from his office. He’s been successful in securing funding for three projects in East Hampton in the last two years. Suffolk will carry the $1.14 million cost of the most recent project.

The dredge is operating around the clock, with work slated to be completed by January 15. If weather proves an impediment, McNally said Schneiderman has already started the process of requesting an extension of permits. With balmy temps predicted all week, though, McNally said, “Let’s hope we get it done.”

Said Schneiderman, “I am pleased to have worked with the East Hampton Town Trustees in opening a navigable channel at Accabonac and look forward to a safe boating season.” kmerrill@indyeastend.com

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Landmarks See Funding Opportunity

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The Town of Southampton’s Landmarks and Historic Districts Board announced in a press release last Friday the launching of the Landmarks Maintenance Program, in an effort to have owners of historic structures designate them as landmarks.

The program will offer funding opportunities to maintain the survival of the town’s historic resources.

Spearheaded by Councilwoman Bridget Fleming and the LHDB’s chair Sally Spanburgh, the program pushes to preserve the town’s 2000 historic structures, many of which are threatened by neglect or deferred maintenance, according to the release.

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Hit-And-Run Suspect Search Continues

By Emily Toy

An international manhunt is continuing with both local and federal authorities searching for the driver police say is responsible for a hit-and-run crash that killed a nun in Water Mill last July.

The alleged fugitive, Carlos Armando Ixpec-Chitay, reported as a 30-year-old Guatemala native, was behind the wheel of the SUV that struck and killed Sister Jacqueline Walsh, 59, of Syosset, as she was walking along Rose Hill Road on July 9 of last year, according to police.

Officials say the car belonged to Ixpec-Chitay’s employer. Police say it was found abandoned later that night with front-end damage about a half-mile from Walsh’s body. Ixpecchitay was identified as the driver of the vehicle about 10 days after the incident.

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Detox: All Kale Breaks

By Kitty Merrill

Whether it relates to something as simple as exchanging diet soda for lemon water, or as comprehensive as hours of limbic flushing or days-long juice fasts, “detox” has become the hottest buzzword in fitness and health.

Cleanses and juice fasts are no longer the sole purview of faddists, starlets, or extremists.

On his website touting a 48-hour weekend cleanse Dr. Oz, arguably the decade’s It Guy when it comes to dispensing health advice, notes, “The practice of detoxifying the body to rid it of unhealthy toxins has been around for centuries.

Hippocrates recommended fasting to improve health, and many religious groups have historically used fasting as a way of purifying the spirit.”

Typically detox “diets” focus on ramping up the body’s natural waste disposal system by boosting the action of the liver, colon, and kidneys. Depending on which program you wish to follow, the detox will likely include foods designed to provide nourishment while assisting in the cleansing process. Menus will be Spartan, with the goal being to eliminate chemicals and preservatives while highlighting the benefits of fresh produce and their ability to debloat the belly and flush toxins . . . And with certain cleanses, there’s an accent on “flush;” you’re not going to want to be too far from the facilities while undergoing colon cleanses.

Some also go with a totally food-free fast. Juliette Logie, who runs Simply Sublime Health Food Market & Café in East Hampton with her sister Alison Burke, recently completed a 10-day juice fast. “After watching the film “Fat, Sick And Nearly Dead” I was inspired to start a juice fast. It’s

a way to get massive amounts of micro-nutrients into your system,” she explained. While the first days can be tough, Logie said that by day five, “I felt like a rock star. My energy was through the roof.”

Simply Sublime offers a number of juice combos, as well as smoothies for the less courageous. For Indy’s photo shoot, Logie whipped up the “Dr. Oz,” comprised of apple, kale, cucumber, parsley, celery, lemon and ginger, and “The Detox,” a blend of cucumber, carrot, apple, and ginger.

Tomorrow at noon, Simply Sublime will host an informational session on Ayurvedic Cleanse.

Any reputable purveyor of a detox plan will suggest you check with your personal physician before embarking on an intensive program. An article recently published on the WebMD website emphasizes that detox diets are not scientifically proven, and weight

loss is most often just temporary.

Prolonged fasting can actually be harmful, the site warns, while fasts lasting a day or two are unlikely to be harmful for most healthy adults.

Again, be sure to check with your doctor.

Thanks to the volume of magazine or Internet articles and books devoted to the concept of detoxification and cleansing, if you can read, you can go it alone and concoct your own juice fast. But why suffer solo? The popularity of the trend has given rise to guided programs enabling dieters to glean support and inspiration, or just commiserate, with others.

Locally, detoxers can get clean in luxury surroundings. Starting Friday, Gurney’s Inn Resort & Spa will offer a Detox Weekend designed to provide guidance, encouragement and motivation for health conscious guests looking to begin the year with a clean slate,

and system.

The weekend includes lectures, films, a healthy cooking demonstration, unlimited use of the Sea Water Spa facilities, and fitness classes, all combined with ocean view accommodations and a specially-crafted menu.

Phyllis Lomitola, Gurney’s’ convention and banquet director, spearheaded the creation of the weekend. She said helping others get healthy is “my passion in life.”

The menu for the weekend will be quite light, with juices, broths, salads, and fresh fruit featured.

“The menu will be vegan and use all organic produce. It will be portion controlled, but you’re not going to starve,” she said.

During any intensive detox, Lomitola said, it’s wise to take it easy and rest. To aid relaxation, guests can sign up for an array of detoxifying beauty treatments offered at the spa. Massages and

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Resolution Solutions

By Kitty Merrill

Today’s the day. According to one study six out of every 10 people who vow to get fit, get thin, and get healthy for the New Year have given up by January 9. Has your resolve already dissolved?

The website statisticsbrain notes that of all those who make annual promises to themselves, close to 40 percent focus on fitness and weight loss. But only a paltry eight percent have kept the vow after a year’s gone by. Twenty five percent of the resolution-makers break their promises in the first week and within six months, over half have given up.

Still, the website proactivechange.com notes that those who do make resolutions are 10 times more likely to attain their goals than those of us who don’t even conceive a desire to improve.

For people who want to change their lifestyles, there’s an array of resources available – an avalanche of advice easily accessed from magazines, books, television programs and the Internet. In the coming months and beginning with this edition, The Independent joins the fray, offering our new health and fitness guide designed to provide tips, plus introductions to specific local fitness experts and institutions committed to helping East Enders battle the bulge and boost their biceps.

In future issues we’ll offer information about a variety of local fitness-oriented locales, and the myriad strategies they promote to help you get lean and get healthy, and most of all . . . have fun!

We’ll be dancing, spinning, touring gyms, working out outdoors, and indulging in spa days. So, lace up your sneaks, join us for the ride, and embrace 2013 with a vibrant view towards a better you.

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Montauk icon has also recognized healthy lifestyle trends, offering daily menu specials and hosting yoga weekends throughout the year. “We started with just one and now we have five weekends a year with between 50 and 100 people,” Lomitola reported. She’s hoping the detox weekend is as successful.

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Arthur Murray Dance B East The Arthur Murray Dance studio in Southampton is beginning "College Nite" on the second and fourth Mondays in January for the area’s college dance enthusiasts to come and learn, dance and party.

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RICK’S SPACE The Other Side Of Gun Control This week, Rick snagged an exclusive interview with Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association.

Indy: Your organization’s motto is “I’ll give you my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands,” which was famously stated by Charlton Heston.

NRA: Yeah. Funny thing is, we did.

Indy: Did what?

NRA: We pried his gun from his cold, dead hands. You see, rigor mortis had set in, and old Charlton had big hands.

Indy: Christ – you literally took

the gun from him?

NRA: He was dead – he didn’t give a crap. Too bad he didn’t have that thing when he made Planet of the Apes – them smarmy apes would have found out in a hurry you don’t mess with the Statue of Liberty.

Indy : Another slogan gun enthusiasts use is, “If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”

NRA: It’s true. Every law-abiding American should own a gun, and of course everyone in uniform, be it cops, soldiers, Boy Scouts and the like.

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Indy: Boy Scouts?

NRA: And Cub Scouts, too. Girl Scouts as well – we don’t practice sexual indiscrimination.

Indy: Girl Scouts?

NRA: Hey, they’d sell a lot more cookies. If one of them little f**kers come to my door and says, ‘Buy a dozen boxes of cookies or I’ll blow your brains out,’ I’m goin’ all in on the Samoas, even if they sound un-American.

Indy: Now let’s get to the grizzly shootings at schools. You’ve called for an armed guard at ever y institution of learning.

NRA: That’s correct. A deterrent, so to speak. Soon as some wise ass kid gives him any lip, Bam! Take him out right there. That will be the end of the disobedience.

Indy: With all due respect, sir, the people aren’t worried about the kids mouthing off, they are worried about crazies shooting their kids.

NRA: Exactly. If you make guns illegal, only crazy kids will have guns.

Indy: Wouldn’t having guards at the schools be astronomically expensive?

NRA: Not at all. We already have crossing guards. Just outfit them with an automatic weapon, 30 or so rounds, and maybe a Glock under their belts in case the entire fourth

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Indy: You’re kidding, right?

NRA: Of course. Most folks take this stuff too seriously. We laugh, we joke, we breathe just like everyone else. Only difference is, we don’t take s**t from liberal New Yawk a-holes who believe that guns are evil.

Indy: Some people think guns are phallic symbols.

NRA: I didn’t take geometry in school. I was a shop major.

Indy: Married?

NRA: Of course.

Indy: To a woman?

NRA: The last fella who said that kind of thing to me is underground now.

Indy: Oh, a miner or subway conductor?

NRA: Never you mind, sonny. I can tell you’re from New Yawk, I’ll tell you that.

Indy: One more question: How can we regulate guns more effectively?

NRA: They’re regulated enough now. Hell, when I bought my 12-gauge at Wal-Mart I had to show ‘em my library card. I was sweatin’ it out.

Indy: Why? NRA: I still got some overdue picture books from back in the fifth grade.

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EDITORIAL Time To Get Back To Work The drama that played out in Washington D.C. as 2012 came to an end resulted in a much needed compromise that averted the so-called “fiscal cliff.” Neither Republicans nor Democrats got what they wanted, and that’s what compromise is all about.

The bigger picture, though, is still muddied. President Obama insisted on raising taxes on the wealthy, and the people wanted that to happen -- we get that. In fact, Mitt Romney’s reluctance to embrace the concept likely cost him the presidency. But the government must rein in spending in order to keep the deficit from growing. President Obama is already campaigning to raise the debt ceiling, a sure indication his belt tightening stance is more illusion than substance.

On the other hand, no one really wants to see Social Security and the other social programs take a hit, especially when defense spending continues to gobble up massive amounts of tax dollars.

One thing we think most of us will agree on -- it’s time to get back to work.

Unemployment insurance was and is a noble concept. It enables those who lose their jobs an income while they get back on their feet. It used to be available for 26 weeks – presumably long enough to find another job. Under Obama, though, unemployment has become a career. Many people have collected for almost two years, and the president insisted we renew benefits for the two million or so unemployed whose benefits were set to expire. At his insistence, the benefits were extended for another whole year.

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R.I.P. Barbara

She was probably the strongest person I’ve known and she dealt with her fate only with her immediate family. We never knew until the end.

Sport is and always will be just a means to deal with life and, in this case, death. God has a job waiting for Barbara and I’m sure she’ll be in a similar position in heaven.

Our condolences go out to her family.

The Southampton Town P.A.L. will be doing more in the future to acknowledge her work. It’s just too soon to absorb. Rest in peace, Barbara, and make sure the angels are properly fitted for equipment.

DICK HERZING, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dear Editor, The Southampton Town P.A.L. announces the upcoming football season will be dedicated to one of its icons! While the holidays are usually a festive time, this year the P.A.L. family as well as the Mitchell/ Sulzinski family suffered a tragic loss with the devastating passing of Barbara Mitchell-Sulzinski.

Barbara was our secretary, our Sergeant Of Arms, and the “straw that stirred the Slanderous Accusations drink.” We will be hard pressed to replace To The Editor, her – probably with a minimum of three Gregory Blass has seen fit, in his letter to people, I would think. She was always on The Independent in the December 19 issue, top of things and prided herself on that. to point out that I am being evicted from

We submit unemployment insurance isn’t a career decision. Consider that Americans all over the country – especially here on the East End -- are bemoaning the Latino influx, claiming the newcomers are taking jobs Americans used to have.

This is true to a certain extent, but it only tells part of the story. Many of the jobs in question are those that pay close to minimum wage. They are out there – just look at the want ads. According to the New York Times there are an abundance of jobs in the service industry employers have trouble filling.

Here’s the problem: these professional unemployment collectors don’t want a job -- they want an executive position at the same salary they once were paid. But guess what? A lot of those jobs are gone for good, vanished in the new economy.

The rest of us foot the bill for those who collect -- hundreds of billions of dollars.

But the cost is even more significant -- for each person who is on the dole could be working, and thus contributing to the economy by paying taxes and Social Security.

Let’s be honest. If you have been collecting unemployment for two years and are able bodied and healthy, you’re not looking for work -- you’re mooching off the rest of us.

Count us out of the scam. There are things more important than a free check, like dignity and self-esteem. In this country, with a job comes the opportunity of advancement.

That’s how many of our forefathers carved a place for themselves.

Leave the free checks for the disabled and the elderly. Every able-bodied citizen should work. There are jobs available -- grab one before some hard working immigrant who still believes in the American dream does.

my residence at Hidden Cove Motel due to “disgraceful and disruptive” behavior while, I presume, fully knowing that he cannot document ONE single incident of such on my part. Not ONE. Neither can his business associate, my landlord, LAML Realty, whose managing agent has leveled the same slanderous accusations about me in another publication.

Mr. Blass should take a deep breath, remind himself that in his quest to do “God’s work” he must, from that lofty perch, suffer gladly the fools who don’t think he is doing anything of the sort.

More seriously and accurately, however, Mr. Blass should really remind himself that all he really is, is a bureaucrat who is intemperately besotted by his fantasies concerning what he has perpetrated here at Hidden Cove.

Mr. Blass further asserts that I will “not be homeless when evicted” and that I “know it.” Really, Greg? How do you know

what I know about myself and my situation?

Have you, any of your minions, or perhaps your “non-profit” partner Community Housing Innovations ever ONCE expressed the tiniest bit of concern about me or my neighbors (the 87-year-old woman and her disabled daughter)? The answer is a resounding “no,” which forces one to conclude that all of this sanctimonious concern about homeless people is so sacrosanct that a little bit of it can’t be sliced off in order to help somebody like me or my neighbors, who are being displaced by this guy’s social service agency.

Pardon me, Greg, while I fruitlessly attempt to wrap my head around the concept of being evicted by a homeless shelter operator -- for no other reason than that I happen to (inconveniently for Mr. Blass, CHI and LAML) live here. Am I getting in the way of something, uh, bigger?

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Greg fails to appreciate something else: I have actually lived here from day one of the conversion. Let’s say that I have seen stuff and maybe there will be more about that in a little bit. Just observations, mind you, gathered by a cranky, ill-behaved crackpot who doesn’t see the world in quite the same way as a pontificating bureaucrat does. My failing is probably attributable to the fact that I cannot bring myself to see the world from the point of view of someone who is charged with the responsibility of distributing a seemingly bottomless pit of someone else’s money to someone, for example, who’s just off a bus from Miami and went straight to DSS to demand support. Just sayin’ . . .

Finally, and most contemptibly, this bureaucrat deigns to quote Jesus Christ (“Whatever you do to the least of mine, you do to me”) in a seeming attempt to sanctify what he does or, in the cases of me and my next-door neighbors, what he DOESN’T do.

Let me tell you who has done “God’s work,” Greg: Jesus, Mother Theresa, Dr. Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, Dr. Jonas Salk, Mahatma Gandhi first-responders, et al . None of these monumentally important people would choose to oversee the eviction proceedings necessary to heartlessly evict an old woman from the place she has called home for almost five years. I am a person who, if he does nothing else well, knows how to use an above average vocabulary.

I nonetheless cannot find the words to more fully describe what a smarmy fool this guy is.

NICHOLAS SARIDAKIS Editor’s Note: The Independent chronicled the situation of the letter writer and his elderly neighbor in issues dated

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Any New Year Resolutions?

Jude Geller My New Year resolution is to drink a little more.

I would have to say Congress is responsible for that resolution. All of that “Will we go off the cliff? Won’t we go off the cliff?” And I’m sure there’s more to come.

Marc Schiffert My resolution is to exercise a little more. But to exercise my body and my mind. To learn something new every day. Any topic is good but for me, especially science. I am a structural engineer so I’m particularly interested in engineering science.

Jose Vales To keep moving forward with plans for a church I’m trying to help build in Puerto Rico. I have a friend who is there building the church. I send money but I don’t have that much to spend so I hope I can win the lottery and then we can get it built.

Kathy Lieb My resolutions are completely typical. Lose that 10 pounds. No other resolutions. Just do a diet. That’s it.

12/12/12 and12/19/12. Both are available online at www.indyeastend.com under “archives.” Gregory Blass, who is the Suffolk County Commissioner of Social Services, wrote a letter to the editor published in our 12/19/12 edition.

Hot Calendars Letter to the Editor, The Donald T. Sharkey Memorial Community Fund would like to thank Kitty Merrill for “shooting the shoot,” and spreading the word that “The Original Mr. Amagansett Calendar” would be available in 2013, with all proceeds from the sale going to the Fund.

We are not unmindful of the devastating effects of Sandy, and the economic and health-related struggles that many of our community members went through in 2012, and continue to have. The Fund was created in an effort to help alleviate some of these struggles for individuals in need, and to give to causes that Don Sharkey held dear and volunteered his own time and effort towards.

It was a wonderful surprise that your paper chose to feature our endeavors just before the holidays, and we would like to thank Kitty for having fun with us, and each and every person who donated their

faces, time, and talent to raise money to help others. The calendars are selling like hotcakes for $20, and will be available at the Mr. Amagansett Pageant on February 2 at the Stephen Talkhouse. Doors open at 6:30 PM. There’s still time and room for talented men (and Rick Murphy) to perfect their acts. Thanks again and Happy New Year!

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Donations For Fireworks Dear Editor, Can you imagine summer without the spectacular annual fireworks? Each year our all-volunteer East Hampton Fire Department proudly sponsors this show and is responsible for raising money through your generous donations.

Although the date has been moved to the end of the summer (by order of the Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the breeding grounds of endangered shore birds) attendance to the show has not remained steady, but has increased. Sadly, our donations have dropped by half.

Fire Chief Felix Dominy started the EHFD annual fireworks display in our community over 90 years ago. We think the show is a wonderful way to celebrate our nation’s Continued on page 17.

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We look forward to your support and thank you for making this event possible.

RAYMOND J. HARDEN Editor’s Note: Donations can be mailed to the department at One Cedar Street, East Hampton 11937.

We Can Do It Dear Rick, A tragic event has taken place in small town America, especially to the most innocent among us – educators and small children are gone and our hearts are torn forever. We are all less rich because of the sorrow. What took place in this small American town is beyond comprehension.

A shame has fallen upon us.

Can we fix this? Where do we begin?

Let’s revisit our values. Let’s do better, let’s try harder to overcome this. One and all, all of us can make this world safer. Can we ever again leave our doors open or have no fear of unexpected harm?

We can build a new house with all of God’s treasures inside. Start again, and pick ourselves up. We can do it.

Love has flown away from us, forever. I wonder how do you mend a broken heart?

Our children – our loved ones – are our future.

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School Guards Letter to the Editor, The recent tragedy at a Connecticut school shooting points out the need for stronger security measures to help prevent or mitigate loss of life at our schools.

The emergency plans implemented at schools can minimize injuries and deaths, but cannot prevent them when confronted with determined shooters.

Buzzers, cameras, identification cards and sign-in books will not stop shooters from forcibly entering schools.

One security measure that could counter the actions of shooters is the presence of armed security officers in every school. Granted, the killers might try to shoot the officers first, but the killers could be focused on shooting the students and teachers, and the officers could take out the shooters.

Another possibility would be to have trained administrators with weapons available to them in a locked and secure location.

Mentally competent people and non-felons may purchase weapons in accordance with the Second Amendment of our Constitution, which allows citizens to bear arms, and this right should continue.

However, should ordinary citizens, like the Newtown shooter, be allowed to purchase a bulletproof vest? The purchase of bulletproof vests should be a huge tipoff on the purchaser planning a shooting.

We need armed school security officers.

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Reliable volunteers are needed to usher, assist in special events, or work in the office or assisting in marketing outreach.

“So many people say to me, I don’t have money to help -- well you don’t need it! All you need is to have time and enjoy working in a fun environment,” said Executive Director Tracy Mitchell.

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Laura will be the Office Manager of the Bridgehampton office, set to open in March 2013.

He’s Back Former Southampton Town Supervisor Skip Heaney, a familiar face in town hall for nearly two decades, is back. Last week Heaney was named the legislative director of the Southampton Business Alliance.

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Tuckahoe School The PTO Family Fun Night at SYS (Southampton Youth Services, 1370 Majors Path, Southampton) will be this Friday, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM. Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten registration for residents of the Tuckahoe Common School District will be held on February 13th and 14th. Call the main office at Tuckahoe School to schedule an appointment at 631-283-3550 ext. 301 or 302. To be eligible for Kindergarten, a child must have a birthdate between 12-01-2007 and 11-30-2008. To be eligible for Pre-Kindergarten, a child must have a birthdate between 12-01-2008 and 11-30-2009.

Parents are required to bring birth certificates for their children along with immunization records, a copy of their latest physical, two proofs of residency - if you are currently renting, a lease agreement and if you own your home, a current tax bill will be accepted as proof of residency along with two forms of identification with your name and the address of the residence on it (for example: driver’s license, cablevision bill, LIPA bill, pay stub, bank statement).

Ross School Ross is offering new classes for students ages 5 and up in Afternoons at Ross. Under the guidance of Ross faculty and local professionals, students can take courses in art, farm care, music, performance, athletics, and tennis.

Classes start on Saturday and meet in the afternoon or on Saturdays.

Please check listings for specific location. Ross membership is required to participate in programs.

To sign up, or for information email communityprograms@ross.org or call 631-907-5555.

John M. Marshall The PTA is encouraging the public to submit school related pictures. Whether it’s candid shots of students around the school, allschool meetings, field day, Veterans’ Day, or more, please send your pictures to jmmespta@gmail.com, or drop off a disk at the PTA mailbox in the main office.

East Hampton Middle School Parents of eighth-graders were offered a taste of their children’s daily grind next year, when the High School principal Adam Fine came and spoke to them at the Middle School auditorium last Wednesday.

Mr. Fine and other staff members discussed schedules, programs, extra curricular activities, and answered questions.

Bingo and sports night is coming up January 18 from 7 to 9 PM. East Hampton High School Students who qualify have a chance to take a 16-week drivers’ education course, with theory classes twice a week before school starts, and driving after school and on the weekends. There is a fee; for forms and more information contact Patricia Hand.

Financial aid night will be held for students and parents on January 17 at 6 PM in the auditorium. Prior to that, at 5:30 PM, department heads and teachers will discuss some of the senior class offerings for next year, highlighting the program of studies. This is a useful and informative night for all juniors and their parents.

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Conquering The SATs One might ask, what’s the worst part of junior year? A lot of students would quickly answer without a doubt, the SATs. All the while interfering with schoolwork, adding more stress, and resulting in less sleep - what is there to like about the SATs? The SATs were developed in the 1920s by founding father Carl Brigham. Ever since its creation, the SAT test has been controversial.

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“However, the data for Bernards do show a decline in Lyme cases during our program.”

Because the Lyme Disease pattern was less clear than that of road kills officials sought data from neighboring townships. Although their cases declined, too, (without an aggressive culling program in place) the decline in Bernards was sharper compared to neighbors.

At the start of the program, the loss of woodland understory was high on the list of concerns. A survey of a 425-acre wooded tract by a local environmental expert revealed the appearance of early spring flowers and oak and maple saplings as tall as two feet. “A few years ago all seedlings were regularly browsed to the ground,” the report states.

“We have a solid program,” Carpenter concluded. “We go about it methodically and in concert with state Fish & Wildlife.” He said he doubts the program costs more than $7000 per year, most of which goes to buying bait, with hunters receiving small stipends for ammunition and license expenses; they are not paid for their time.

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Carpenter said grants from the CDC helped cover the cost of the aerial surveys.

The survey established a reference population estimate of 2170 deer, some 89 per square mile in 2002. By 2011, the number had been cut 48 percent, to 46 deer per square mile. Over half the kills reported in 2011 were implemented using archery equipment. The harvest that year was equivalent to 38 percent of the total population.

Since 2001, township officials have tracked deer killed in auto collisions. Over nine years, from 2002 to 2011, the deer population dropped to 52 percent of the original reference estimate, and road kills decreased apace, dropping 50 percent over the study period.

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The relationship between deer and the tick that is a major vector for Lyme Disease has been a subject of protracted discussion at recent town board meetings in East Hampton. The Bernards report notes that lower deer density didn’t yet show a downward trend in tick nymphs surveyed at sites in the township. “With no apparent change in tick density, we did not expect to see a change in cases of

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“accurately predict an individual’s academic performance in college.”

The article goes on to argue that the SATs are indeed valuable, and are accurate even when “parents’ education and family income are taken into account.”

There are, of course, some negative sides to the SATs. Whether they do or don’t accurately predict academic performance in college, they undoubtedly make things harder for people from lowerincome families or who lack a familiarity with English. Tutors and prep classes aren’t readily available to everyone.

Another negative. The SATs are unlike any tests that students find at school. Take the essay portion of the SAT. At my school, I’ve always been encouraged to write long, flowing essays with long paragraphs. On the SAT, however, students only get 25 minutes to write a simplified essay in five short paragraphs.

So what’s the solution? Lots of teenagers end up getting SAT tutors, or enter SAT prep classes.

This is another highly controversial aspect of the SAT since kids from lower-income backgrounds can’t always afford a tutor to help them score better. Is this fair?

I had some early tutoring with my former math teacher (math has always been my weak point).

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be very helpful, but sometimes they don’t work out as well as having a tutor. Personally, I received more instruction from one-on-one sessions than I did in my class.

It is important to remember when preparing for the SATs that the prep book is your best friend.

Understandably, I found this hard to believe when I first saw the large blue and green College Board book.

Yet, it contains many hints and tips, as well as numerous practice tests that end up being invaluable.

In early December, I took the SAT for the first time. I was quite nervous. The night before, some kids in my dorm simply couldn’t study. They had done so much studying for the test that they were burnt out. I was feeling the same way, and didn’t get much studying done. I threw the book on the floor at midnight. I now realize that the best tip, as many teachers tell us, is to go to sleep early.

With less than seven hours of sleep after waking up at 6 AM, the task looked more daunting than ever. Sitting through the four hour test was another ordeal. For some kids, four hours is just too long to stay focused. Once you finally finish, I think everyone can agree that it’s a huge relief.

Now that I’ve survived one goround, I feel more confident ahead of the second test, even though I had to spend much of my winter break poring over the SAT practice book and meeting with a tutor.

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East Islip

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Smithtown East

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Centereach

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Newfield

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West Islip

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Centereach

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Copiague

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Bellport

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Hauppauge

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Comsewogue

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Hauppauge

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Bellport

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Comsewogue

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Copiague

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Huntington

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West Babylon

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Harborfields

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Islip

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Sayville

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Rocky Point

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2-5-0

4-0-0

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3-0-0

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Rocky Point

3-1-0

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1-3-0

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Ross

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1-3-0

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Mattituck

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1-7-0

Hampton Bays

0-4-0

2-6-0

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Greenport

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2-5-0

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Smithtown Christian

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By George Aman

Play Bridge the club suit in dummy to dispose of one ♥- A97 of my losing spades. ♦- Q10 Following my own advice, I drew trumps ♣- AK753 in three rounds and then played the three ♠- QJ10 N ♠- K643 top clubs. When clubs ♥- 1064 W E ♥- 32 did not break, I could establish the fifth club ♦- A9542 S ♦-K76 but had no transporta♣- 92 ♣- J1086 tion back to cash it. ♠- A98 Down one. ♥- KQJ85 When I replayed the hand at 2 AM, I ♦- J83 drew only two rounds ♣- Q4 of trumps with the king and queen of Dlr: S hearts and then beVul: Both gan the clubs with Opening lead: Queen of Spades the queen and king.

Instead of playing the ace of clubs, which S W N E would have been 1H P 2C P trumped by West, 2N P 4H All Pass I led a small club, which I then trumped I played a hand very similar to with the jack to prevent West from this one at a recent Monday after- ruffing over my heart 8. A small noon duplicate game at St. Luke’s heart to dummy’s ace drew West last trump and I was able to play Church.

Unfortunately, I did not make the ace of clubs and a small fifth my contract until I woke up at 2 club on which I threw a losing AM and replayed it in my head. spade. Making four.

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What went wrong? I cleverly to play the world’s most challenging noted that I had four potential and exciting card game, please call losers- two spades and two dia- me at 631-907-2917 or email me at monds. My plan was to establish the above address.

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The East End is heavily populated with Big East alumni, especially those who attended the seven Catholic universities that don’t play major college football. Finally St. John’s, Georgetown, Villanova, Providence, Seton Hall, Marquette, and DePaul have fought back in the melee that has become conference realignment. Within the last couple of weeks, these schools announced their plans to leave the Big East and pursue a new basketball venture.

Most recently, ESPN has reported that the “Catholic Seven” has had preliminary talks with Fox Sports on a 12-year, $500 million TV deal.

For the past two years, the Big East has been the laughing stock of the power six conferences.

Syracuse, Pittsburgh, Notre Dame, and Louisville left for the ACC, West Virginia bounced for the Big 12, and Rutgers announced it would leave for the Big 10. While every other conference was adding big name

members, the Big East Conference stood on the sideline like a bunch of losers, adding the likes of East Carolina, Tulane and Houston.

Former commissioner John Marinatto trusted his members in an era when few athletic departments could spell the word loyalty. When it became clear that football would dictate the conference’s fate, Marinatto didn’t go fishing for the big catch; he waited on Villanova to decide whether it was going to move up to the FBS level. Speaking as an alum, Villanova wouldn’t have added any real value to Big East football. Even if the idea had come to fruition, it wouldn’t have stopped the other six schools from leaving for bigger football payouts.

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conference. The deal being discussed would bring in approximately $5 million per school, per year over the next 12 years. To compare, schools in the Atlantic-10 (Xavier, Butler, St. Joes, etc.) earn a measly $400,000 per season. While $5 million is well short of the big time football programs, (which earn upwards of $20 million), it’s not too shabby for a group of schools that faced an uncertain future just one month ago.

According to league officials, the Catholic schools won’t be able to get out of their Big East commitment until June 2015. At that point they can fight to keep the Big East name or they can find a new name for their venture. I think they should fight to retain the Big East name, as the new league will have four founding members (Providence, Georgetown, St. John’s, and Seton Hall) and a focus on basketball, which is what the Big East was founded on. With a major network backing them, these schools deserve the chance to rebuild a brand that has been tarnished and diluted over the last few years.

Going forward, the new league will likely look to add three to five teams and form its own 10 or 12 team conference. St. Joe’s, Xavier, and Butler are three schools that would be good adds. St. Joe’s would

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Xavier has always considered itself a basketball school. And Butler has one of the brightest, young coaching minds in Brad Stevens, along with back-to-back trips to the NCAA Championship game.

Another key for the seven schools and their new conference is to keep their tournament at Madison Square Garden. MSG is signed with the Big East for another five years, but the arena will be allowed to adjust as conference memberships change.

Maintaining their tournament in the basketball mecca will help maintain the credibility of the conference. St. John’s use of the Garden as its home-away-fromhome should provide an advantage in this process.

The Big East was built on basketball and destroyed by the quest for the dollars that football generates. The seven Catholic schools made a great decision to finally forge their own path. With the support of a major network, it appears that the “Catholic Seven” has a real future on the hardwood.

The schools that became the least coveted in conference realignment, may in fact get the last laugh.

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